Blog: Observations and Insights

Some science fiction stories, like Michael Crichton’s novel Prey, portray nanotechnology as leading to developments that can destroy the world, but some of the presenters at this year’s International Nanotechnology Conference for Communication and Collaboration (INC5) told a story that...

While nano may be about things on a very tiny scale – around 10-9 meters, there is nothing small about the government’s investment in nanoscale research -- it’s now around 10+9 dollars. There were many presentations about the National Nanotechnology...

"The Network is going to grow. I don’t think you can stop it or control it even if you wanted to." So said, Cal Tech nano researcher Mamadou Diallo, a member of the NISE Net’s NSF review panel at a...